🌰 Lil Treasures #88: Randy Acorn and Oozy Cheese

Howdy, y’all! This week’s newsletter is coming to you from the great state of Oklahoma - and I will hold my feelings about how Texas is greater just this once. We’re here seeing family and celebrating the last few days of summer before my kids go back to school this week. Did I mention one of my children is starting middle school? I’m still in denial. Hope you enjoy this week’s treasures!

🕯️ A personal treasure for me this week: one of our Lil Swipes, Sasha Johns, has procured the tortilla candle from HEB for me. I cried when I found this out. This community is the best! Thank you, Sasha!

🎙️ My friend and podcaster/editor/producer, Angie Elkins (she hosts the Chatologie podcast) is teaching a LIVE online podcasting class on Zoom beginning Monday, August 9 (that’s this Monday!) Angie is such a helpful voice when it comes to podcasting, and this course is going to be an amazing resource for anyone who’s looking to enter (or already in) the podcast industry.

😴 I’m not gonna lie, guys. Moving coupled with this new surge of COVID coupled with trying to send my kids back to school has made me feel tremendously weary. I’m frustrated and I’m tired. Does anyone else feel like this? Anne Helen Peterson’s newsletter this week, titled “You’re Still Exhausted”, made me feel more like a human again and validated some of my woes. Also, if you don’t subscribe to Anne’s weekly newsletter, you are seriously missing out. It’s one of my favorite reads. (You can subscribe here!)

💛 Another place you can find me this week is on the Surviving Sarah podcast. I had the best time talking with Sarah about pop culture and motherhood, so if either of those things interest you, give it a listen!

🏅 This video of kids asking Olympians questions is adorable.

🗄️ My friend Tara at House Peace has helped me bring order to my chaos. She is a wizard and I will passionately endorse anything she does for the ways she has made my life easier! She just released an online course for helping organize your kid’s keepsakes that is going to be a game-changer in the Moon home (at this very moment I have a stack of drawings and school sheets on my kitchen counter that I’m unsure what to do with…) If you have kids going back to school soon, I recommend this course! It will help you create a system for the madness before a tornado of worksheets takes over your house.

🥪  PSA, if you don’t already - you need to follow Half Baked Harvest on Instagram. I feel like I save literally everything she posts because it all looks so amazing. When she cuts her foods in half and pulls it apart for the cheese to really do it’s thing - you know what I’m talking about. GIVE ME THAT OOZY CHEESE. She posted this recipe for a tomato bacon grilled cheese so if you need me next week, I’ll be trying to pull apart my grilled cheese with the same grace that Tieghan does.

This week’s tweets were GOLDEN:

Rich Villodas @richvillodas

The same bible that tells us to "rejoice always" has a book called Lamentations. We don’t have to choose one from the other. Good, healthy Christian faith is non-dualistic, able to hold multiple tensions together.

Karen Howell @karenehowell

I’m just saying perhaps Nike could add a little more support in certain parts of its track suits.

Laurenn @laurenncarterr

Took my dogs to take their yearly christmas photos. It’s really hard when you have one super photogenic dog and one dog having an existential crisis.

R. Eric Thomas @oureric

The body is running up the score.

Simon Holland @simoncholland

I think my kids are watching YouTube tutorials on the loudest possible way to open and close a doorknob.

Sean O'Connor @seanoconnz

My dad has long Covid, he coughs every ten seconds and it’s annoying as hell. So get vaccinated so you don’t annoy your perfect little 36 year old boy.

Duchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblat

Some of you are trying to do serious editing work using 800 grit sandpaper. It's going to take forever. Get in there with 40 grit.

“Hey Siri, add this tweet as my daily reminder:”

Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyderPHL

I think a lot of people need to hear this: You just went through 1.5 years of a profound ongoing threat to your health/wellbeing/life, social isolation, aggressive disinformation, political turmoil, and financial uncertainty. OF COURSE you are not functioning at your peak.

Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller

Hyper-individualism is not a Christian virtue.

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

“why are you reading when you could be socializing?” bro the characters in this book are so much less annoying than you

Kimberly aka Naomi’s Osaka @kimmraderie

Cancelled meetings = entertaining angels unaware.

Sho Baraka @AmIshoBaraka

My daughter just saw Sylvester Stallone and said, “Hey that’s the guy from Spy Kids!” with great enthusiasm. We have two different realities!

Karen Howell @karenehowell

This one goes out to all my friends and family: Why aren’t y’all good enough at a sport for me to be filmed reacting to it?

KELGORE @KelgoreTrout

My kid just peeled a fat strip of paint off the wall and said “I love the skin of our house”

Eric Schumacher @emschumacher

Gimme your Celebrity Christian VeggieTales. I'll go first: "Randy Acorn" talks to kids about money and spiritual warfare.

carolyn riley @crileyariver94

women’s clothing designers are like “we will do our part for the body positivity movement by making dresses for ALL body types that cannot be worn with a bra”

That’s it for me, pals! I’ve got a weekend stocked full of juicy watermelon, family reunions and soaking in the last few events of the Olympics. Can’t wait to see what you have planned in the comments!